The All Progressives Congress (APC) has won Saturday’s governorship election in Edo state. Candidate of the party, Senator Monday Okpebholo, 291,667 votes to defeat his close opponent Asue Ighodalo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who garnered 247,274 votes. The Labour Party (LP) candidate and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olumide Akpata,…
Edward Masha, a former Commissioner for Water Resources in Kaduna state, has emerged as the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. Masha was elected on Saturday during the state congress of the party, which held at the International Trade Fair along Zaria road, Kaduna. He polled 2,123 votes to defeat his…
Kaduna state police command has arrested a suspected gun runner with 20 locally fabricated AK 47 rifles. In a statement on Friday in Kaduna, Mansir Hassan, spokesperson of the command, identified the suspect as Bitrus Gyang, from Barkin Ladi, Plateau state. He said Gyang was arrested on Thursday at about 4 pm in Buruku, Igabi…
An Abuja Federal High Court has put on hold the state congress of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) party in Kaduna following a suit filed by five aggrieved members of the party. The congress is scheduled for Saturday at the International Trade Fair Complex along Zaria Road, Kaduna. The aggrieved party members obtained an exparte…
Former Defence Minister, Theophilus Danjuma, has urged the military to end the lingering insecurity and stop the killings in many parts of the country. Danjuma who spoke in Abuja on Tuesday at the public presentation of a book, ‘Big Boots: Lessons from My Military Service’, authored by Solomon Udounwa, a retired major general, tasked service chiefs…
The federal government will soon unbundle the 115 Federal Unity Colleges (FUCs) in the country into basic and secondary schools. The minister of state for education, Yusuf Sununu, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja at the opening of the annual general meeting of principals of unity colleges in Abuja. According to the minister, the plan…
